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Mike Bostock on Scroll-based Interactions
Mike Bostock has written about 5 rules for effective scrolling within touch-based gestural, keyboard & other interactive storytelling and visualisations. Citing a few examples including the Apple...
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Google’s Material design
Wired has written another post on Google’s Material Design, this time looking at the considerations within Interaction Design. Material design is a few things. It’s a makeover—a “sweeping,...
View ArticleUXMatters on the Principles of Great UX Design
UX Matters have written a summary on some of the Principles of Great UX Design. The article is a summary of a panel discussion written by Janet M. Six, covering Design Principles and and also how UX...
View ArticleHow comics & screens work together
Opertoon and Creative Applications Network have written about a recently launched website, TimeFraming: The Art of Comics on Screen – dedicated to exploring what comics can teach about communicating...
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Cooper diagrams from About Face 4
Cooper has shared a number of diagrams from the work in About Face 4. The slides and diagrams are shared via a Creative Commons 4.0 BY-ND license. The first edition About Face, is the book that brought...
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Universal Dimensions for evaluating Social & Physical spaces
Today I revisited the Universal Dimensions described in the Kevin Lynch book Good City Form for evaluating Social & Physical spaces. If you haven’t heard of this book, I totally recommend it, as...
View ArticleJason Santa Maria on Sketching & Generating Ideas
Jason Santa Maria has written a wonderful article post on Sketching, and making Ideas stronger. I want a big sprawling mass of ugly ideas because it helps get past the most obvious ones, and improves...
View ArticleGoogle’s new checkbox reCaptcha
Google has re-introduced re-captcha, an alternative to the 2000 user dialogue challenge-response test used in computing and on the Web to determine whether or not the user is human....
View ArticleDesignX: A Future Path for Design
The Design Collaborative* have written an Essay on DesignX – a new, evidence-based approach for addressing many of the complex and serious problems facing the world today. It adds to and augments...
View ArticleDaniel Kahneman at TED on Experience vs. Memory
Daniel Kahneman, filmed at TED 2010 for his talk, The riddle of Experience vs. Memory. …we might be thinking of ourselves and of other people in terms of two selves. There is an experiencing self, who...
View ArticlePreserving expression, thinking & longevity within Design
Shane Hudson has written a nice article on 24 Ways which touches on an area I’ve been thinking a lot recently – preserving expression, longevity and thinking within Design. His article titled, Putting...
View ArticleHow the new Skype Universal Translator works
Skype have written a blog post explaining how their Skype Translator works which is currently available as a preview-release for the Spanish language. The blog includes a short Behind the scenes video...
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Adding further meaning into the new Products we Design
Happy New Year everyone & Hello 2015. After a beautiful Xmas with family in the Lake District and a few weeks away. I start the new year catching up on a tonne of reading, teaching our little one...
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Enjoying the great talk by Ian Bach at IxD15
@IanBach – IanBa.ch – #IxD15 We discussed the IxD15 Ian Bach presentation last night (amongst others) at the IxDA London Movie night at the Wellcome Trust. Ian Bach @ixd15 talks about human &...
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Amazon relaunches Dash with an IOT Button
Amazon has launched a redesign of the original Dash (which was a scan and point/click device) with a button version that lets you order products with a press of a button. Pretty smart. Hello Dash...
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How a team completed a design sprint in 3 days
Michael Sueoka, writes on the InVision blog about how their team completed a 5-day design sprint in 3-days. We couldn’t allocate an entire 5 days to this, so we had to fit it into 3 days—for only 2...
View ArticleTop 6 Predictions for Service Design in 2016
Erik Flowers predicts what we can expect from service design over the next 18 months. The medium of your brand will become irrelevant. Touchpoint design will not be enough to differentiate Holistic...
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It’s World IA Day today!
World IA Day is a one-day, annual celebration focused on the practice and education of Information Architecture. It’s a celebration that brings together a diverse global community including information...
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Interaction Design today, a short documentary
Every year, IxDA’s Interaction Awards assembles a diverse group of design practitioners from all around the world to select exemplary projects in six impact-based categories from among a community...
View ArticleIt’s Not the Interface that Makes the Experience
Dave Malouf adds to the recent discussion on Experience Design with a Medium post titled – It’s not the interface that makes the experience. There has been a lot of conversations about its validity or...
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